Gift of Tania Norris

Binding: sprinkled calf; spine (rebacked?) with lighter colored calf; bookplate of Robert Montgomery Convoy on front pastedown and his signature on title page

Signatures: [A]⁴, a-c⁴, B-8G⁴, 8H²

Added engraved title page with title: Botanologia, the English herbal, or history of plants, adorn'd with figures

Added engraved title page included in foliation

Added engraved title page signed: E. Knight delin, M. Vdr. Gucht sculps

Woodcut botanical illustrations throughout text

Title printed in red and black; text printed in double columns

Includes indexes

(from t.p.) I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English -- II. Their species, or various kinds -- III. Their descriptions -- IV. Their places of growth -- V. Their times of flowering and seeding -- VI. Their qualities or properties -- VII. Their specifications -- VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick -- IX. Their virtues and uses -- X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists interspersed through the whole work, in their proper places : where you have their culture, choice, increase, and way of management, as well for profit as delectation

ESTC (RLIN)

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.

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